A woman and her boyfriend allegedly beat her ex-husband to death in the middle of the night with a metal baseball bat, wrap the body in the sheets and blankets from the bed and dump it in a thicket at the edge of a cornfield.

Funny you should bring this up because I just saw an article on Sharon Tate (one of the Manson family killers). She has brain cancer and is hoping that the "system" will let her out on parole so she can die at home. They say that her last hospital bill that the taxpayers paid for was $860,000. It is sad that the system is the way that it is. I feel that if you committed the crime, you should have to work till your death. No tv, gyms, or anything else that may cause them to have an easy life. As for Ms. Tate, I feel she should have to die in prison. She had no mercy on her victims and she should be shown no mercy as well.

Right now I'm reading a book about Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, 2 killers in CA who tortured and murdered scores.
I read books like this once in a while because I'm unable to understand why this happens. I watch Forensic Files and Snapped every so often.
I still cannot fathom why people kill.
I don't think our forefathers had any idea that killers and their trials would become the sideshow they are today.
But I can tell you this, I think I would have a very hard time condemning a man to death if I were a juror.
When I was younger and living in one of the states where Ted Bundy was loose, I wanted him caught and put to death.
Now that I'm older, I don't know if I could have someone's death on my conscience.

Back in the old west when you did a crime you went to trial, got sentenced, and if it resulted in the death penality, it was usually carried out within a few days. Saves lots on money than what we have now. And lots of times because everyone carried a gun, you try to commit something against somebody else, they wouldn't be a need for a trial. Because its already been taken care of.

We cut off our own toe then complain about it is just about the system we have now. Look how much the state is spending on Nichols when the whole thing could have been over for about a dollar and a half.

Actually, Sharon Tate is the lady that Manson's gang brutally murdered. She was over 8 months pregnant and they cut her baby out of her and wrote "Death to Pigs" on the walls. Susan should not have a home to go home to. It should be sold and the money go back to relieve tax payers for their expenditures for her medicinal requirements. Let Susan Atkins die in Jail. That is what life without parole means. We cannot ask Sharon Tate can we...or her child that would be 40 years old now.

I'll tell you what makes people kill...the Devil! He wants to lie to people and seduce them into evil...people are too dumb or too educated to realize there is a God and a Devil and if you don't stand with the Lord you stand against Him and are open to the ways of SATAN...like Flip said...the Devil made him do it.

Oh for CRYING OUT LOUD...what is this crap about the devil??? The devil does not MAKE PEOPLE KILL!! Bad people or bad choices or bad intentions or greed/laziness make people kill. They are responsible for their decisions and actions..not some idiot belief in the devil. I have no problem with people having faith but don't EVER make excuses for killers by blaming the devil!! THAT IS A COP OUT AND A CROCK OF S*IT!!

Stop it now there is a real devil who is at the middle of every murder committed, every lie and every evil decitefull thing imaginable. We need Jesus, cause w/o Him every one of us is capable of murder and more.

I think the reason people kill is associated with "the time in which they live" but the overriding influence is love or greed. As in the Old West, a known horse thief was hanged, but a horse was a family's transportation to supply families with food and necessities, get a doctor, etc. I guess murder will become a misdemeanor in a few years. As the jails become more crowded, the penalties will become less severe and even some will be released early to accommodate more convicts. For a short while. Might as well let them all out. They are just tax payer expenses anyway. Taxpayers must pay for the guards, air conditioning, heat, food, education, television, exercise, schooling, their lawyers. Open the gates and tell the loved ones of the ones they killed which gate they are coming out.

I read #2CATS post and many people feel like that. They worry about their conscience of being in the position of putting a justifiable end to a murderers life. Well, I am the opposite. I could take a person that without a doubt is guilty of murder or ANY crime against children and split their skull with my .44mag. I would go home, watch the Braves, eat supper and go to bed as I do any day. Might even have a nice dream that I might have saved a innocent person by putting to death one more "bad guy"!

the devil was designed by your preachers and other religious waco's of the past to scare folks with a buggy-man,if you didn't play their little games and it's going on still this very day!how else do they keep power and swindle money from people to build their maga churches?
people kill because of all different reasons from just plain meanness to love to religious reasons (which by the way is how more people have died on this earth than any other reason)

When justice was swift and the guilty executed within days of sentencing, there were still people killing, robbing and stilling. The criminals know what can happen and most do not think of the consequences when committing their crimes. You need to remember there has been killing since Cain and Able, so for you or anyone else to expect it to stop, ever are delusional.

If this person wants to believe in a devil and in hell let them. I guess it’s because they feel that they need it in their life in order to do now wrong. As for me, I could never bring myself to believe in a kind of God who would be all so powerful, all knowing, all present and at the same time allow some wicked little red guy with horns, pointy tail and a go-tee to wreak so much havoc among those their God claim to love so dearly. My God is so much greater than that.

People kill for many different reasons. A person gets obsessed with a situation which leads to delusion and result in ill rational behavior. Some people have a mental click where they become incensed beyond ant sense of reason. I think the main reason is that most people lack any trace of mental discipline. People are never taught to know that “They are not their thoughts”, therefore, never step back and observe their thinking and ask theirselves why such feelings come to mind. They don’t realize that to entertain such feelings/thoughts will lead to an even deeper and uncontrollable unbalanced mental state. Many never realized that they had choices and can change their thoughts to other than those that can lead to criminal behavior. We should be ashamed and disgusted to know that we lack in our society what is required to empower people to know they do have choice other than the ones that cause so much pain and destruction.
We are a violent society and I don’t mean just criminal behavior. TV programming, the spin off effect of war, some types of athletics, some video games, gang behavior, drug wars, the ghetto mentality or the inability to resolve many of our problems without a physical confrontation.
To ask why do people kill, is just like asking why does the sea taste like salt, it’s because presently, it’s in our nature.

I hate to see when you meet your fate. There is a devil and he consumes all who open up. So we don't believe your garbage. Believers know when they see the devil even when it is written words.
These people weren't going to gain anything by killing except souls.

Christy- What's her name and her idiot partner in mayhem go before the Grand Jury next month.
Then the process s-l-o-o-o-w-ly begins.
There is an update under one of these headers, cannot remember if it's "Breaking News" or "Crime". HTH.

I too am in favor of working until death.My daughter,Samantha Wallace was murdered on May19th,2000 and wimp that kill her (her husband,Wilson wallace) only got a life sentence with 14 to serve.He too will probaly be paroled. But I can never hold my daughter again.I am not sure what makes people do these things but they seem to have it made in our justice system.Prisoners should work for their keep.

Welcome to the ••••hole we call earth.Disease,death,war,pestilence,famine,tsunami's,tornadoes,hurricanes,landslides,earthquakes,prostitution,
forest fires,sadistic mass murders,child molestors,rapists,drug addicts,alcoholics,welcome to the reality we call "life".We rape and pillegde earth with pollution,carbon monoxide,carbon dioxide,cutting down forests and dumping toxins in the oceans.we do dope,get drunk,beat and abuse our children and spouses.Remember evil spelled backwards is live.So keep destroying
the planet,smoke crack and worship satan for all i care,just do it away from me.Were making a great place for future generations to live.We'll just find them another planet to live on,since there's so many available.Let's make this place as much like "hell" as we possibly can.
and as far as this story goes i know the accused people involved being as how she is my sisters frind for about 15 years and she never acted evil or in sane but i do believe she is guilty and if she is found so she should fry

Would you be guilty of murder if you urged someone to do something stupid like balcony jumping when they were drunk. What if you only made it seem as if it was the greatest rush in the world. What if the person was really naive and looked up to you as her employer?

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